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+1 Forward

By Richard Rogers

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Description

+1 Forward is a show about games using the Apocalypse Engine. We cover these games in play, and talk about the many flavors of games Powered by the Apocalypse. Each episode will have a discussion about mechanics, as well as an example of play.

Rich sits down with Fraser Simons of Samjoko Publishing to talk about his PbtA game series of Supernatural Urban Fiction. Timecodes: 01:09 - Read a Sitch and learn about using one-shots to stitch together a campaign! 10:32 - Open Your Brain to...

Rach and Rich introduce Movie Night, a new series where we pair a movie and a PbtA RPG and talk about how you can watch the movie and improve your experience with the game. Our first pairing is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Masks: A New...

Rich and Rach discuss Apocalypse Engine Games and defined settings. Most PbtA games don't have them. Why is that? Is that a feature or a bug? Timecodes: 05:52 - Do Apocalypse Engine games need settings? 13:35 - Discussing some PbtA games with strong...

Rach comes back from Metatopia 2018 with five stellar interviews with designers of PbtA games in alpha playtest. Timecodes: 04:56 - Taylor with Descent into Midnight 10:24 - Stentor with Get Ready to Rock 15:52 - Iris with Dream of the Empress 22:23...

Rach welcomes Jonathan Lavallee to the show! 01:16 - Read a Sitch... on collaborative play and shared GMing 11:23 - Open Your Brain... to We Used to be Friends, the ashcan version 24:27 - Act Under Fire... with Rach and Jonathan playing a scene of We...

The Gauntlet Gaming Community, which produces this podcast, is launching its very first Kickstarter on October 2nd! We’re raising money to create a beautiful hardcover book collecting the first 13 issues of our zine, Codex. This special podcast...

Another episode where Rach and Rich answer questions from listeners about playing PbtA games Time Codes: 1:06 - From James Mullen: if the Moves I've picked from a playbook turn out to be sub-optimal for where the story is going, what should I do?...

Guest: Jen of Slugfest Games @halcycat on Twitter Timecodes: 1:33 - What are Custom Moves? 29:22 - Act Under Fire - Making a Custom Move exercise Links: The Story Games "Custom Moves make the game" thread:...

Time Codes Question One: What sets being a player in PBTA apart from being a player in another system? Submitted by David LaFrenierre (01:51) Question Two: What strategies and practices do you employ as a player in a PBTA game to set the other...

For this special episode of +1 Forward, we present the audio from the "PbtA GMing" panel at Gauntlet Con 2017. The panel took place on October 21st. The participants were David LaFreniere, Lowell Francis, Rach Shelkey, and Michael X....

Read a Sitch - Porting the Pocalypse Overview (00:47) The game is a conversation (03:45) Consequences to actions (05:05) Moves snowball (09:55) Countdown Clocks (13:06) Be a fan of the characters (15:48) What do you do? (23:00) Principles (25:45)...

Rich is joined by James Iles from UFO Press Introduction James’s start with PbtA (00:42) Read a Sitch “Splitting the party” (02:52) Open Your Brain - Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2E Overview (07:53) Playing factions vs playing characters (10:00)..

Introduction Fraser’s start with PbtA games (00:46) Read a Sitch Using songs to inform your story (03:41) Open Your Brain - The Veil Overview (10:29) States (12:52) The Abyss Stares Back move (16:24) The Apparatus (18:42) Act Under Fire Plus01...

Rich welcomes Steve Wallace to the show! Introduction Steve’s start with Apocalypse World (00:28) Read a Sitch World creation in a Con game (01:58) Open Your Brain - No Country for Old Kobolds Overview (06:43) Some differences with AW (09:10) F**k...

Rich sits down with David Kizzia from Monkeyfun Studios! Introduction David’s start with Apocalypse World (00:28) Read a Sitch Designing adventures for PbtA games (02:04) Open Your Brain - Spirit of 77 Overview (07:13) Some differences with...

Rich is joined by Ian Williams of Flatland Games. Introduction Ian’s start with Apocalypse World (00:22) Read a Sitch The idea of initiative in Apocalypse World (02:50) Open Your Brain - Action Movie World Overview (09:06) Mechanical differences...

Rich is joined by Hamish Cameron, author of The Sprawl! Introduction Hamish’s introduction with PbtA (00:28) Read a Sitch The power of XP rewards (01:42) Open Your Brain - The Sprawl Overview (04:20) Can I play an orc? (04:58) Influences (05:24)...

Introduction Gregor’s start with PbtA games (00:22) Read a Sitch Combat in Apocalypse World (00:54) Open Your Brain - Sagas of the Icelanders Overview (06:00) The role of gender in the game (08:41) Distinction between male and female moves (12:30)...

In our first episode of +1 Forward, Rich is joined by Meg Baker
to talk Apocalypse World (2E)!
Read a Sitch
Sex moves (01:37)
Dealing with reset Hx in the fiction (05:12)
Open Your Brain - Apocalypse World (2E)
Release date goals...

Customer Reviews

A Podcast by the Apodcalypse

by
TheDarkFiddler

+1 Forward is an interesting show. When you start getting involved in PbtA games, there's almost this overwhelming desire to figure out how it all works and start evaluating it. You want to see what other games do, how far the design philosophy can be pushed. +1 Forward does just that, and in a way that makes you feel like you always had the answer with you. It brings material to you and helps talk through these games in a way that really shows you what's going on and mostly lets you take your own conclusions from it, and I greatly appreciate that.

The best podcast for learning Powered by the Apocalypse

by
DM Lord Neptune

When starting design on my first full TTRPG, I needed a system that could handle the way I wanted the game to play. Not having heard much more than D20 based games, I was intrigued by Powered by the Apocalypse and the conversational style of play. This is what I've been looking for, I thought, but I know next to nothing about PbtA!

This is where +1 Forward comes into play. I binged this podcast hard and learned an immense deal from it about PbtA without having ever played a single game! I actually wrote up a lengthy pre-alpha version of my game, Chimera, from the lessons learned here and the things I was beginning to understand in the various books I purchased. And now I keep refining things for the better because of the amazing advice that this podcast is known for.

If you are new to PbtA and are interested in the system, you need to listen to this podcast. If you are a player of PbtA games and want to learn about many of the other games out there, you need to listen to this podcast. Even if you are a veteran of PbtA games, you need to listen to this podcast! It's just that good. Rich (and in season two, Rach) bring an excellent dive into this game system and I strive to listen as soon as I can when a new episode releases.

Hopefully this one will be +1 Ongoing for a while...

by
Matt Wetherbee

One of my favorite RPG podcasts. I adore Apocalypse World and its descendants, and love hearing about the development of those games and the designers behind them; the general discussion are a particular favorite, though, with solid advice on how to both be a better player and a better game master. Rich and Rach have a great rapport and an infectious enthusiasm.